For a long time I have been scratching my head and thinking is there a way to have a power diode without the limitations of the exsisting technology.
One example is for instance you need to isolate many KVs. I was mainly thinking about gotoluc's Water fuel discovery and I never liked the strings of diodes.
Then I saw this video:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3grPo81fBrA
If the flow of plasma can be modulated by a magnet, we can in effect have a plasma transistor where the direction and density of the plasma through a tube ( such as a fluorescent lamp ) can be controlled by an electromagnet.
We would perhaps need a Y shaped tube for a transistor.
Well, doesn't an old TV or a CRT monitor work whis way? Same principle.
Omg, this video is freaking awesome. Is this really what i think it is? And the plasma behavior in this video only confirms the teachings of Leedskalnin.
So a magnet is shown to spin the plasma when the magnet is placed in the middle of one end of the cup. If a second magnet was placed in the lower end of the cup, I wonder if the plasma would cause that second magnet to spin ?.
Near same , as in YT-movie
you can shown on your CTR or TV Monior
Even differents on S and N. Pole.
BUT you can never modulate an fired plasma-connectrion.
This "shown" Plasma, is only an electrostatic plasma, without any forces or power
You can noting do with it.
Pese
Quote from: pese on January 11, 2009, 08:08:45 PM
Near same , as in YT-movie
you can shown on your CTR or TV Monior
Even differents on S and N. Pole.
BUT you can never modulate an fired plasma-connection.
Pese
special tube-like magnetic field, similar to a 'magnetron'
Quote from: sm0ky2 on January 11, 2009, 09:59:57 PM
special tube-like magnetic field, similar to a 'magnetron'
The word that springs to mind is 'tube', as vacuum-tube technology predates semiconductor transistors (and magnetrons, for that matter...) by about half a century.
It's amusing that the plasma properties which were exploited for switching and amplification in the vacuum-tube era are enjoying a renewed interest late in the post-transistor era.
The solid-state revolution is nearly complete-- I predict that soon earth's population will revert to a new generation of plasma-state devices for a large variety of applications.
@zerotensor
"The solid-state revolution is nearly complete-- I predict that soon earth's population will revert to a new generation of plasma-state devices for a large variety of applications."
- I absolutely agree.
Quote from: AhuraMazda on January 11, 2009, 06:35:11 PM
For a long time I have been scratching my head and thinking is there a way to have a power diode without the limitations of the exsisting technology.
One example is for instance you need to isolate many KVs. I was mainly thinking about gotoluc's Water fuel discovery and I never liked the strings of diodes.
Then I saw this video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3grPo81fBrA
If the flow of plasma can be modulated by a magnet, we can in effect have a plasma transistor where the direction and density of the plasma through a tube ( such as a fluorescent lamp ) can be controlled by an electromagnet.
We would perhaps need a Y shaped tube for a transistor.
Plasma controlled device in a form of vacuum tubes were extensively used (and still are (!) for some specialties (mostly high power or super-fast power burst application)) in the past... (In a "pre-semiconductor" times...)
Google "Thyratron" - a gas tube for a high power rectification - with (electrically) controllable electrode(s).
A gas plasma capable of rectifying (and sustaining) many kiloAmperes (and kiloVolts). Switched on by a just a "low energy command".
Most of the today's basic semiconductor components (by functionality!) had a "vacuum tube" version predecessors...
If you ask me, a "string of HV diodes" is still the simplest method for HV rectification (assuming you're not dealing with hundreeds of kWatts..?)
Thanks for your inputs.
I don't think the transient responce offered by a power diode can match that of a switch operated by plasma.
I need to explan although I am not an expert in "valves", vaccume tubes work on the baisis of an electron cloud
which is not quite plasma!
Also, there is a new leap in the new semiconductor technology was made two years ago and perhaps it has got snapped up by the military.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=om2m-xs9dCE&feature=related
Quote from: sm0ky2 on January 11, 2009, 09:59:57 PM
special tube-like magnetic field, similar to a 'magnetron'
Magnetron is also not to use as an "gated" (grid) triode. .
Also you cant not change the cathode (or anode) current by
changing the flux in the magnet-field.
(I see, that was the idea)
i was think also, to do this, years ago...
Pese
A way to gate electron flow using photons?
I would like to hear the switching times for the novatron.
This would explain no heat loss due to gate action.
Imagine producing near or light frequencies that weren't visible to the human eye but only to an eye consisting of an array of these gates.....
Yep! The military surely has it.
@AhuraMazda
Do you mean something like this.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=E4VCOOMfzvI&feature=related
The thing about magnetic beam switching tubes that interests me most is the fact the beam would 'latch' to the selected anode.
A military clock (which used the above, along with Nixies) I used in the 70's had a reset button. This button was used to reset these beams after a power failure. Sometimes even the removal of power would not reset the beam direction or whether the beam was on or not.
It was built by Sperry - Don't remember the model number but it filled the width of a 21 inch relay rack and about 4 inches high.
Anyway, the latching of the beam is interesting to me.